I agree. That's been in PalmOS since the Treo 600 - perhaps even earlier! On Dec 22, 2007 2:37 PM, Alec Usticke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should email them and ask them to print a correction. > > -- > Alec Usticke > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.usticke.org > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: "Mike Dyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subj: [Treo] The Definitive Mobile OS Guide > Date: Sat Dec 22, 2007 2:29 pm > Size: 1K > To: "Treo Yahoo Group" <[email protected]> > > Hi, > > yesterday at work I was reading the latest issue of 'Pda Essentials', it's a > UK handheld computing magazine. > Inside they had a feature on 'The Definitive mobile OS guide, where they > compared Palm OS 5, Symbian S60, and Windows Mobile 6. > > I've got my Treo 650 with me of course. > > During their review of Palm OS 5 (page 20), they said "Palm OS always seems > just a bit less functional than either S60 or Windows Mobile 6. For example, > on the Treo when you access Contacts, there's no option to start a text > message, and in Windows Mobile 6 if you receive an email with a phone number > in it, you can click on the number to dial it, but Palm OS does not seem to > acknowledge that email and phone functions can be linked" > > Excuse me ?, > > I picked up my Treo, accessed Contacts, highlighted a mobile phone number > from the list of Contacts, and immediately the Treo popped up an icon > 'Message' so I could start a text message if I wished. > > Then as a test, I emailed an email from one of my accounts, to another > quoting a phone number, I then retrieved it with my Treo. As soon as I > opened it the email there was the phone number underlined in blue, and if I > tapped on it, the Treo would dial it for me. > > I don't know weather this was sloppy journalism or anti-palm bias, but it > was irritating.
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